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The geopolitical and market bogeymen of the moment – Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, tariffs, cyber warfare – are riding tall in the saddle.
That’s sparked something of a “flight to safety,” which ignited a bit of an uptick in demand for Treasuries this …

If targeting political extremes generates the most profit, then that’s what these corporations will pursue.As many of you know, oftwominds.com was falsely labeled propaganda by the propaganda operation known as ProporNot back in 201…

This weekend, I’d like to take a slightly nostalgic trip down Memory Lane, into the dark, swirling menacing pool that was the dawn of the Internet. OK, that sentence didn’t end up quite where I meant it to.

When I started my newsletter business in October of 2000, I decided to have a little fun with it on this new thing called the World Wide Web, aka “the internet.” If you, like me, are of a certain age, you remember well that we started every web address with the ubiquitous www.

WSJ: “Ten Years After the Bear Stearns Bailout, Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again.” Myriad changes to the financial structure have seemingly safeguarded the financial system from another 2008-style crisis. The big Wall Street financial institutions…

It has been 2 months since I last had a chance to respond to reader comments. This seems like a good time to pause and take the opportunity to do so again. Keep them coming!

Today, since I’m in a contrarian mood, I thought I’d focus on ever-so-kindly replying to people who don’t see eye to eye with me…

I really enjoy these exchanges. They get my creative analytical juices flowing, and force me to consider alternative viewpoints which I may not have done initially.

In fact, the more rebuttals I write, the kinder I feel! Which is why I’ve decided to report a special gold opportunity today (continuing our prickly theme with an investment that is the very definition of contrarian right now).

If indeed this inflation hysteria has passed, its peak was surely late January. Even the stock market liquidations that showed up at that time were classified under that narrative. The economy was so good, it was bad; the Fed would be forced by rapid economic acceleration to speed themselves up before that acceleration got out…

Three weeks ago, the markets broke to the downside and ended the tightest eight-week range in U.S. markets’ recorded history.

With that “box-busting” break, we got four out of five days that had close-to-close moves of 1% or more.

In my Stealth Profits Trader service, I predicted that the markets would go no lower than the “line in the sand” I drew on the chart below. The market would stay above the line this push down and then settle in for a slow grind up after that quick pullback.

Liquidity moves markets!

This cool chart I drew will show you where markets are likely headed next.

It’ll point at the best commodity trade to make this week, too…

The Markets Are in the Molasses Once More

Right now, we’re sitting right around 1% below all-time highs, grinding up from our line in the sand.

The U.S. presidential election season is starting to loom larger and larger in the thoughts of traders and investors.

That makes the modest uptrend that we’re in a little tough to see – unless you look at a chart along a smaller time frame, like this:

Now, this uptrend should continue, but there are a few forces out there – forces not so easy to predict – that could push it to new highs… or deeper back into the sideways quagmire that defined trading over most of the summer.

There are several important, influential economic reports due out over the next two weeks, including employment, retail sales, and construction, and several members of the Fed’s Board of Governors will speak between now and Oct. 10.

I’m not expecting much in the way of surprises, but… well, that’s why they’re called surprises.

Any startling developments in the U.S. presidential election, or news from the South China Sea or the Syrian Civil War, could roil the markets, and that’s something to keep in mind.

In view of this, I think the smart move, when the stock market is moving in baby steps, is to make trades and investments that aren’t strongly correlated with stocks.

There’s one I can show you right now…

This Sector Is Dealing Out Upside Profits Right Now

Oil, for instance, has been good to our Stealth Profits Trader readers lately, with a 100% options profit on top of a cool 20% gain on an oil exchange-traded fund (ETF) we were playing. Every peep out of OPEC moves the oil market right now, and the profits can be big.

However, oil is holding a double top right now that could break to the downside:

That double top and possible move lower aren’t anything to fear, though, when you’ve got technical analysis informing your investing and trading decisions. It simply means it’s time for a change of tactics, to book downside profits instead of upside. Put options and short-selling are the easiest way to do that.

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